Articles by Falko Timme
About Falko Timme
Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".
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Watching Hard Drive Activity With iotop On Ubuntu 8.10 And Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 5Watching Hard Drive Activity With iotop On Ubuntu 8.10 And Debian Lenny This article shows how you can watch your hard drive activity with iotop on Ubuntu 8.10 and Debian Lenny. iotop watches I/O usage information output by the Linux kernel and displays a table of current I/O usage by processes or threads on the system. iotop displays columns for the I/O bandwidth read and written by each process/thread during the sampling period. It also displays the percentage of time the thread/process spent while swapping in and while waiting on I/O. In addition the total I/O bandwidth read and written during the sampling period is displayed at the top of the interface.
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The Perfect Desktop - Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, desktop •
Comments: 18 The Perfect Desktop - Debian Lenny This tutorial shows how you can set up a Debian Lenny desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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How To Upgrade A Debian Etch System (Server & Desktop) To Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 13 How To Upgrade A Debian Etch System (Server & Desktop) To Debian Lenny This article shows how you can upgrade a system running Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. It is intended for both server and desktop systems.
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Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 3Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, centos, php •
Comments: 3 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On CentOS 5.2 This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on CentOS 5.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: backup, fedora •
Comments: 4 Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10 This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over.
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QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 1QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop In this article I will show how to install and use QuickStart on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc.
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How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: apache, php, debian •
Comments: 0 How To Set Up Apache2 With mod_fcgid And PHP5 On Debian Etch This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Debian Etch. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.
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Installing Ubuntu 8.10 On Your USB Flash Drive
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 15 Installing Ubuntu 8.10 On Your USB Flash Drive This guide shows how you can install Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB flash drive. Ubuntu 8.10 comes with a tool that lets you create a USB startup disk easily - this startup disk behaves like the Ubuntu 8.10 Live-CD. This is useful if you want to install Ubuntu on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive. When you create the USB startup disk, you can also specify that you want your USB system to be persistent between boots (i.e., it does not lose your settings, documents, etc.) - that way you get a fully usable OS that you can carry around in your pocket.
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 10)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: antivirus, fedora, postfix •
Comments: 6 Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 10) This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I'll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.
